I’m supposed to offer the information, folks, but today I don’t have much on the DU end. The Pios are traveling. I have a call into the sports information director, who also is on the trip, but I must admit, I’m about ready to leave for the 12th (13th, 14th?) annual Mark Faur Super Bowl party, and that automatically gives me the rest of the day off.

On Monday, I will aim two big questions at DU coach George Gwozdecky, and we’ll have complete coverage Monday (blog) and Tuesday (paper). To wit:

How bad is Tyler Ruegsegger’s leg injury? I was at the CC game Saturday night and only heard that the stud sophomore center left Game 2 at Minnesota State with a leg injury. Word is that he’ll be evaluated in Denver on Monday. SPOKE WITH GEORGE TODAY, AND APPARENTLY TYLER’S INJURY IS TO HIS MIDSECTION, AND HE’S QUESTIONABLE FOR THIS WEEKEND.

Will the Pios be without Ruegsegger and Brock Trotter this weekend against the Gophers? Have to wait and see about Tyler, but the Trotter situation is just as cloudy. We don’t know much of anything, other than he’s not injured, sick or suspended (officially yet, anyway). GEORGE SAYS HE’LL ANNOUNCE IT TUESDAY

How bad is DU playing right now? Is it simply a confidence problem? Is Mannino going through a mental storm? I don’t know; I didn’t travel, no TV. Perhaps you saw the game. Please chime in. All I know is the Pios were good against Bemidji State after those two awful performances against Wisconsin and Air Force, and that Minnesota State — sixth in the WCHA — is now tied for No. 10 in the Pairwise.

Switching gears, I want to throw CC some much-deserved love. The Tigers were AWESOME in Saturday’s 6-1 waxing of No. 10-Clarkson. My good friend (and competitor) Pat Rooney of the Little Paper and I both said that was the best team we’ve seen this season. Clarkson didn’t like the wide ice, but still, this was a complete mismatch. Most impressive was CC’s power play — which reminded me of the puck movement and sniping of the 2002-03 unit of Peter Sejna, Noah Clarke, Tom Preissing and little freshmen Marty Sertich and Brett Sterling (if you can believe that) — and sophomore forward Mike Testwuide, who was playing on the Chad Rau line and the PP. Mike, whose first choice was to play with his older brother at DU — a spot wasn’t available at the time — had two goals and three points. The big kid can really skate.

Lastly, good for Air Force. After blowing those two games at Army, the Zoomies got a three-point weekend out of Bentley. Now, they need to sweep Mercyhurst and get one of those top two seeds for the AHA tournament, which they need to win to get into the show.